Capitalism Hates You

From the seemingly innocuous and fun 1970s sitcom Happy Days to the on the surface harmless and child-friendly McDonald's Happy Meals and Ronald McDonald, the root causes of the obesity epidemic, opioid epidemic, divorce epidemic and depression and individualism epidemics are exposed in this eye-opening book that reveals the insidious and irresponsibility-causing devices retailers, banks and Machiavellian ad agencies have used over a fifty-year period, which has resulted in obesity being the number-one killer of Americans in 2025.

The Happy Days and Happy Meals make us and our children happy in the moment, but there is a terrible cost to pay later for easy and inauthentic entertainment and fast food-weakness, malaise, regret, addiction and miserable codependence.

Without the TV and computer screen, blessings in some ways, San Francisco would be a clean and well-ordered place without mass homelessness, without mass crime, without all the avoidable chaos and entitlement and disorder and unending fear and frustration.

Capitalism Hates You explains where we went wrong and when and importantly how we can achieve stability and equilibrium with capitalism and corporations as a means to prevent the entire system collapsing.

It is blindingly obvious that capitalism hates us, that currently we are all victims, trapped within a cult, this replacement for religion and family and faith and community. So we have two choices; we can continue aimlessly moving forward as our waistlines expand uncontrollably and our finances and mental health suffer as we desperately seek to keep up with the Joneses as we follow subliminal orders received in our youth, following cunning programming designed to subvert our will 24/7.

Or we can form a better, healthier relationship with TV, with the internet, with media, consumerism, capitalism and credit as a means to not only improve our health but also to guard against unnecessary outsourcing, unnecessary mass immigration (which only fuels the far right and xenophobia) and to guard against the self-inflicted harm caused by hypercapitalism pushing nuclear-armed obese nations to lash out at other nuclear-armed nations in a gargantuan display of scapegoating at the start of the 21st century, which could very well result in complete obliteration of capitalism, of communism, of everythingism ... and of us also.

This is a critique of capitalism but by no means a call for immediate state ownership of everything, including us; rather, this critique is designed to improve, educate and save. I have faith that the terrible current trend towards mass obesity and every home owning at least one mobility scooter can be reversed.

We can and must develop a better relationship with capitalism, credit, fast food, TV and the internet, and there's no better time to start than right now.

If you are staunchly loyal to capitalism, if you consider this book an 'attack' on your culture and way of life, do not worry. Do not fear. Regular programming and drive-thrus and overdrafts and hedonism and excess and envy, addiction, peer pressure and fear will all resume after you have finished reading this short book. There are no hypnotic jingles or catchy taglines or slogans included here, no brainwashing, no sugars or sodium or mascots or fantasy fiction to wow and control and make of you a zombie-like, powerless, self-harming disciple.

So read, please, and keep reading as you have nothing to lose, and if you were worried that capitalism is threatened by the mere existence of this short, educational and fast-paced guide to surviving and thriving within a capitalistic democracy, you needn't be; after all, by purchasing this book, you are fuelling the capitalistic system ... you are helping to keep capitalism on life support.